Paula Danziger Quotes

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

I want to let my feet speak.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.